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Therefore one noon last week four eminent Belgians, who had traveled 2,500 miles across the sea, drove up to the White House portico. First to step down from his limousine was M. Emile Francqui, head of Belgium's largest bank, the Société Générale de Belgique. Next was M. Camilla Gutt, of Belgium's great Katanga Copper Company in the Congo. Third was their fellow Tycoon Etienne Allard and fourth was a distinguished young member of the Belgian nobility, Count Philippe d'Arschot. Escorted by Ambassador May and members...
...First National Bank. ¶ To Abbe Georges Lemaitre, professor at the University of Louvain. now lecturing at Catholic University in Washington, D. C., author of the ''expanding universe" theory which views the present universe as shrapnel of one atom exploded some five billion years ago: the Francqui Prize of 500.000 francs ($23,000) for scientific work of such importance as to boost Belgium's prestige. Donor of the award, second only to the Nobel Prize, is Emile Francqui, banker, one of Europe's dozen richest men. ¶Died. Hugh Cosgro Weir, 49, publisher, author; after...
...Francqui. With 66 nations present but with the U. S., Britain and France lobbying among each other as though they, "The Big Three," were almost the whole Conference show, keen resentment kindled among minor nations, erupted from the "Copper King" of Belgium, shrewd, grizzled old Emile Francqui, close friend of King Albert...
...Should the United States, Great Britain and France fail to point a way out of the economic morass at this Conference," snapped Copper King Francqui, "the small nations of Europe will cluster about the one sole statesman capable of leadership- MUSSOLINI. // Duce is fostering sensible ideas for united action while the Great Powers are doing nothing. The small nations, crying for leadership, will follow Mussolini...
Tipped off by M. Francqui, correspondents circulated among the delegates of Norway, Sweden. Denmark. Luxemburg and The Netherlands. They were told that recently representatives of these little nations and Belgium met in Stockholm, seriously discussed formation of an economic bloc of minor nations should the World Conference fail, and decided, in the words of a Scandinavian Delegate, "to seek a powerful leader around whom we could gather...